Changing the perception of our own nature. On the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Robert G. Edwards Autores/as Josep Santaló Resumen Robert Edwards is the father of assisted reproduction techniques. Thanks to him, more than 4 million children have been born who possibly would have not existed had it not been for the development of these techniques. In vitro fertilization, a technique originally designed to overcome certain diseases that cause female sterility, opened the door to a whole series of new, associated technologies that, by putting at our disposal human gametes and embryos, have allowed us to interact with these biological entities of our own species in addition to modifying the concepts that, until that moment, had very clear and constant meanings: maternity, paterno-filial relationships, the beginning of life, and even human identity itself. These changes as well as those that followed resulted in a reassessment of our ethical values and legal concepts, which in turn has caused a genuine revolution in the way we view both ourselves as a species and the place we occupy in the vast panorama of nature. Descargas PDF (English) Publicado 2012-07-03 Número Vol. 7 Núm. 2 (2011) Sección The Nobel Prizes of 2010 Licencia This work is subject, unless the contrary is indicated in the text, the photographs or in other illustrations, to an Attribution —Non-Commercial— No Derivative Works 3.0 Creative Commons License, the full text of which can be consulted at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/. You are free to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work provided that the author is credited and reuse of the material is restricted to non-commercial purposes only and that no derivative works are created from the original material.